Here @ hN we really do have an unending love of award shows of all kinds. But if the Golden Globes and the SAG Awards are any indication of things to come at the Oscars, then we’re freaking out a little. With Oscar nominations a week away, here are a few reasons why…
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While the rest of us were were watching NCIS on CBS on Tuesday night, the A-Listers came out for the New York premiere of ”NINE” @ the Ziegfeld Theater. Two very special guests were Madonna (wearing vintage Dolce & Gabbana) and daughter Lourdes–who is perhaps the fiercest teen in America right now. “I think it’s great that [Lourdes] dresses like a normal, adjusted, and confident teenage girl who is in tune with popular culture, has a social life, and has not in the least bit let her mother’s celebrity get in the way of of it,” noted our resident fashion critic, Jeremy Lewis. Hear, Hear! Love the docs.
“NINE” opens in New York and Los Angeles this Friday, and expands wide on Christmas day (Our review is forthcoming).
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- Madonna & Lourdes
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- Dame Judi Dench
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- Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
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- The Cast
The newest trailer-cum-music video for Rob Marshall’s “NINE” set to “Cinema Italiano,” a new song for the film performed by Golden Globe winner Kate Hudson.The song, written by musicologist Maury Yeston, alludes to the incredible influence of Italian Cinema in the 1960’s. Certainly, it’s a nod to filmmakers like Federico Fellini (”La Dolce Vita”), Michelangelo Antonioni (”Blow Up”), and Roberto Rossellini (”General della Rovere”) just to name drop a few.
Photo: Annie Leibovitz for Vogue.
STAR POWER | What do you get when you combine one Tony award-winning musical (based on one of history’s most influential film directors), starring seven A-list female stars and one of the greatest male leading actors of the past twenty years? Greatness — you would assume, right? Well, you would be wrong.
Monday night, HN was treated to a preview screening of the film adaptation of the 1982 Tony award-winning Best Musical, “Nine.” Both the film and the musical are treatments of Federico Fellini’s autobiographical and seminal film “8 ½,” which tells the tale of a fictional director, Guido Contini — a stand in for Fellini himself. In the film Contini finds himself creatively blocked, suffering a mid-life crisis, mooning over the great loves of his life. Directed by Rob Marshall, of “Memoirs of a Geisha” and “Chicago” fame, the movie features a ridiculous wealth top Hollywood talent consisting of (insert drum roll please):
- Daniel Day-Lewis (2-time Academy Award winner, “There Will Be Blood”)
- Judy Dench (Academy Award winner, “Shakespeare in Love”)
- Kate Hudson (Golden Globe winner, “Almost Famous”)
- Penelope Cruz (Academy Award winner, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”)
- Marion Cotillaird (Academy Award winner, “La Vie En Rose”)
- Sophia Loren (Academy Award winner, “La ciociara”)
- Nicole Kidman (Academy Award winner, “The Hours”)
- Stacy “Fergie” Ferguson (Grammy nominated performer)
Before the criticism, lets discuss the good. All the women in the film killed it (Yes, even Fergie). The audience literally cheered when Cruz as Cotini’s mistress, finished her “Call from the Vatican” number. It should come as no surprise that Cruz can sing — she’s belted out songs in many of her films including Belle Époque (one of her first films), and “La niña de tus ojos” — for which she won a Goya Award. Kate Hudson plays her best character since “Almost Famous” — a swinging sixties “Vogue” writer. But most of all, and again no surprise, Ms. Cotillliard as the wife of Contini, proved once again that she has no intention of being a one-hit-Oscar-wonder never to be seen again. With such abundant star power, what went wrong?
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A behind the scenes montage from the upcoming film adaptation of NINE, staring some of the most beautiful (and talented) women in the world and Fergie opens on Dec 18 in New York. Sophia Loren, Kate Hudson, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench have all either won Academy Awards or been nominated for an Oscar.
Perhaps this is why, Fergie, who has never won an acting award, plays “the whore from [Daniel Day-Lewis'] youth.” Regardless, and Miss Ferguson aside, NINE is perhaps the HN man’s most anticipated holiday film adaptation for two reasons: a) it’s a musical, and b) it stars some of Hollywood’s fiercest leading ladies.
Watch the exclusive behind the scenes montage after the fold.
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